Dr. Kira Thurman German and History University of Michigan U Michigan Wed, 01/26/2022 - 5:00pm via Zoom The History and Gender Workshop presents a virtual speaker series on Gender and Race in Europe. Please join us for this event featuring Dr. Kira Thurman. 5:00 - 6:30 PM. Thurman will talk about her new book, Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, (Cornell University Press, 2021). Pre-registration is required. A limited number of books by the author and historian will be given at no charge to history graduate students who register for this event. Register here Dr. Thurman is an assistant professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and History at the University of Michigan. A classically-trained pianist who grew up in Vienna, Austria, Thurman earned her PhD in history from the University of Rochester with a minor field in musicology from the Eastman School of Music. Her research, which has appeared in German Studies Review, Journal of the American Musicological Society (JAMS), Opera Quarterly, and Journal of World History, focuses on two topics that occasionally converge: the relationship between music and German national identity, and Central Europe's historical and contemporary relationship with the Black diaspora. Presented by the Gender and History Workshop and funded by a Faculty Research Seminar Grant from the Willson Center for the Humanities and the Arts. Research Area: Gender and Sexuality
